TY - JOUR AU - Hall, Gillian AU - Kirk, Martyn AU - Becker, Niels AU - Gregory, Joy AU - Unicomb, Leanne AU - Millard, Geoffrey AU - Stafford, Russell AU - Lalor, Karin T1 - Estimating Foodborne Gastroenteritis, Australia T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2005 VL - 11 IS - 8 SP - 1257 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We estimated for Australia the number of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths due to foodborne gastroenteritis in a typical year, circa 2000. The total amount of infectious gastroenteritis was measured by using a national telephone survey. The foodborne proportion was estimated from Australian data on each of 16 pathogens. To account for uncertainty, we used simulation techniques to calculate 95% credibility intervals (CrI). The estimate of incidence of gastroenteritis in Australia is 17.2 million (95% confidence interval 14.5–19.9 million) cases per year. We estimate that 32% (95% CrI 24%–40%) are foodborne, which equals 0.3 (95% CrI 0.2–0.4) episodes per person, or 5.4 million (95% CrI 4.0–6.9 million) cases annually in Australia. Norovirus, enteropathogenic Escherichia coli, Campylobacter spp., and Salmonella spp. cause the most illnesses. In addition, foodborne gastroenteritis causes ≈15,000 (95% CrI 11,000–18,000) hospitalizations and 80 (95% CrI 40–120) deaths annually. This study highlights global public health concerns about foodborne diseases and the need for standardized methods, including assessment of uncertainty, for international comparison. KW - Keywords: gastroenteritis KW - foodborne KW - burden KW - uncertainty KW - Australia DO - 10.3201/eid1108.041367 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/11/8/04-1367_article ER - End of Reference